The effect of divorce

When parents entertain the idea of divorce, their first instinct is to ask ‘’should we
stay together for the kids?’’. As the adage goes, every family has a skeleton in their
closet. Not to mention, parents nowadays always neglect their loved one in search of
material wealth resulting in divorce as a common occurrence. However, putting kids
in the middle is as if driving them to the brink of breakdown. The vexed question is
what are the effects of divorce?

To begin with, juveniles may undergo emotional instability such as becoming

infuriated about the divorce and the changes it creates. Furthermore, they may blame
and resent their parents for the upheaval in the family. It is sufficient to say that
teenagers will be plunged into the bottomless depression turmoil in the aftermath of
the divorce. It is because their emotions will arise from feeling abandoned. Ultimately,
the inevitable is bound to occur — being insular, emotionally dead, morose and
passionless in activities they once found enticing.

Regardless of age, gender and culture, children of divorced parents will experience
psychological problems. Not to mention, they are inextricably linked to a greater risk
of developing violent and delinquent behavior. For instance, drug taking, smoking,
playing truant and gangsterism. In fact, the reason for delinquency boils down to
attracting their parents’ attention. To further elaborate, children will mingle with bad
apples and sooner or later, they will go astray. Consequently, the child will be a
social misfit if parents show an aloof attitude continuously.
It is incontestable that education is a prerequisite for a promising life. However,
divorce will diminish a child's learning desire immensely. Furthermore, they will
experience a drastic drop in their school grades which hinders their career prospects
in the future.Needless to say,children are vulnerable to reality and parenting support
is of utmost importance to them. It is because support is a predictor of learning which
increases the initiation and persistence.

By and large, divorce brings enormous changes, not exclusively mental but
emotional to a child. Hence parents must subscribe to the saying that pain lasts
forever but memories will before making the knotty decision. Each. unique, with
different strengths and weaknesses and the temperature.